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...came over here," said Harry Truman to a roomful of bankers in Washington's Carlton Hotel last week, "to let you know, in spite of certain information which has been pretty well distributed, that I do not wear horns and I haven't a tail." The bankers laughed heartily...
...with wispy white hair mounted his platform in a Columbia University classroom and began his lecture as if it were to be just like any other. He did not appear to notice that his audience, even larger than usual, had filled every seat and lined the walls. Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes spoke as he always spoke, bringing his course in modern European history up to the minute. Just before the warning bell sounded for the end of class, he had come to 1950. "And there," said Carlton Hayes, "I leave...
Boom, Pause, Boom. It was hard for Columbia to believe. In 50 years Carlton Hayes had become an almost legendary figure on Morningside Heights. He was the elder statesman with the courtly manners who could call a greying colleague "My dear boy . . ." and still make it sound quite proper. He taught history with an actor's skill. Looking majestically out into space, he would boom a few sentences, then pause, then boom out again. Sometimes he would wrap his double-breasted coat close around him as if it were a cloak and seem to become Disraeli, Metternich or Bismarck...
Change & Continuity. In 1942, Carlton Hayes uprooted himself from Columbia to become, for three wartime years, Franklin Roosevelt's ambassador to Spain. His mission: to help persuade Dictator Franco that there was no future for him in entering World War II on the side of the Axis. After V-E day he hurried back to teaching. "That," he explained, "is my life...
Ambitious builders did not even wait for obsolescence. A fortnight ago, a firm took over the fashionable Ritz Carlton Hotel, announced that they would demolish it and build a more profitable 25-story office building on the site...